You are Calvin, you are going to be impressed with yourself. No other reason to master anything.

I tried to read that. It’s a rough read.

I didn’t think of that. I think we’ll watch all the episodes in black & white and I’ll go back and rewatch in colour later.

If you haven’t watched it yet, do yourself a favour, watch it in black & white not the true colour hue. I watched episode 1 in colour first and it all looks off. I just started rewatching it with my kid and I made them set it for black and white the cinematography slaps so much harder!

Hey it was the ‘80s. Cars didn’t hit a hundred bucks till the ‘90s I think.

Thanks! This joke has so many layers to unpeel.

I was thinking the same thing. It’s the window frame I think, it’s like strip inside the strip.

Actually I’m not sure. Usually a beat panel is the second to last with no action in it at all. But in this one both middle panels have an action (the car going by and then Calvin & Hobbs running) but the framing with action outside the window isolates us just the right amount to still feel like a beat is being taken between the action of the car disaster and moms realisation.
I imagine if I was drawing this I’d have had the car and Calvin both go by in the second panel and the third just being mom thinking. But Watterson such a great artist he can create that feeling of a moment of stillness without it really being there.

This is one of my favourite C&H strip. The beat panel just kills me.

Webtoon’s approach vertical scroll is usually pretty good. I’m a big fan of Batman: Wayne Family Adventures so I’ve read the whole series there. Mostly the scrolling flows nicely and as the artists get experienced in the medium they develop techniques to make your eyes flow better up and down, much like comic book artists have developed techniques to move your eyes across the page.

Same dog, same.

I too really enjoyed this one-off. It really feels like Feige is keeping hands off these projects, letting the Daredevil producers in Born Again, and letting Bernthal and Green, tell the stories that they want to tell and not make it about the ‘story’ of the MCU.
I agree with you though this really feels like a restart of the character from the end of his last show and where we see Frank at the beginning of Born Again.
I disagree about Ma Gnucci though. I love Judith Light in the part but I got enough to understand everything she’s going through. Yeah Frank killing her family has given her PTSD and she’s going to hurt everybody in the fucking city to lash out. I don’t need to know why her body is rotting out (it’s the hate she carries) I get that she thinks she’s going to punish him because that’s all she’s got.
Hurt people hurt people - that’s the whole story of The Punisher. It that last minute choice Frank makes to save the Donut family (by hurting people still) rather than focusing on revenge so much stronger.
Honestly the one-off is great and the only problem I have really on my end. It’s not a coda to Born Again, in fact it’s got nothing to do with Born Again at all and I’m still a little bit grumpy about how that ended.

Yeah I didn’t want to wade in to the political fight but the parallels between Trump - Kingpin and ICE - AVTF, are really striking. They almost remind me of Andor in their discussions of rising fascism and the literal police state. This is my worry about the end of season 2, it all came a bit too pat for me but I have faith they’ll pull it together in the long run.

I’m for one glad that they brought back D’Onofrio. His portrayal of Fisk has been a boon for Marvel. Honestly having a complex villain with such a strong presence makes the MCU through line for the Street level heroes much stronger then morass that the Avenger level heroes are dealing with.

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Raccoon with a taser is IRL pikachu.

This show is amazing. The writing, the acting, the direction, but I’d like to take a moment to give props to the sound design at the end of the episode. The steps, Matt’s prayer, the gun shot and then the quiet, with just the breath. <chef’s kiss>

Its not even trolling. If you are a foreign born American Citizen getting a new birth certificate isn’t exactly easy. This why I always have kept two copies of my Birth Certificate.

Ya can’t stop the fun train with simple facts. /s

Craig T. Nelson is a huge asshole.